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Author: E. Feser
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-07-12
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 1137367903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAristotle on Method and Metaphysics is a collection of new and cutting-edge essays by prominent Aristotle scholars and Aristotelian philosophers on themes in ontology, causation, modality, essentialism, the metaphysics of life, natural theology, and scientific and philosophical methodology.
Author: Michail Peramatzis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-08-11
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 019958835X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe idea that some parts of reality are fundamental and others derivative was an important one in Aristotle's philosophical system, and is now again of great current interest in philosophy. Michail Peramatzis presents a new account of priority relations in Aristotle's metaphysics, and draws out their continuing philosophical significance.
Author: John J. Cleary
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-06-21
Total Pages: 597
ISBN-13: 9004320903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Cleary here explores the role which the mathematical sciences play in Aristotle's philosophical thought, especially in his cosmology, metaphysics, and epistemology. He also thematizes the aporetic method by means of which he deals with philosophical questions about the foundations of mathematics. The first two chapters consider Plato's mathematical cosmology in the light of Aristotle's critical distinction between physics and mathematics. Subsequent chapters examine three basic aporiae about mathematical objects which Aristotle himself develops in his science of first philosophy. What emerges from this dialectical inquiry is a different conception of substance and of order in the universe, which gives priority to physics over mathematics as the cosmological science. Within this different world-view, we can better understand what we now call Aristotle's philosophy of mathematics.
Author: Amos Bertolacci
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2006-06-01
Total Pages: 693
ISBN-13: 9047408713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe systematic comparison of Avicenna’s Ilāhiyyāt of the Šifā' with Aristotle’s Metaphysics, accomplished for the first time in the present volume, provides a detailed account of Avicenna’s reworking of the epistemological profile and contents of the Metaphysics and a comprehensive investigation of this latter’s transmission in pre-Avicennian Greek and Arabic philosophy.
Author: Vasilis Politis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-08-02
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1134529791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAristotles' 'Metaphysics' is one of the most important texts in Ancient Philosophy. This GuideBook looks at the Metaphysics thematically and takes the student through the main arguments found in the text. The book introduces and assesses Aristotle's life and the background to the Metaphysics, the ideas and text of the Metaphysics and Aristotle's philosophical legacy.
Author: Oliver Primavesi
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2012-07-19
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780199639984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEleven scholars present a comprehensive study of the first book of Aristotle's Metaphysics. This is a key text for the reconstruction of the early history of Greek philosophy, and sets the agenda for Aristotle's project of wisdom. Included is a new edition of the Greek text, and an introduction which examines its divergent traditions.
Author: Frank A. Lewis
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780521391597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book takes up the central themes of Aristotle's metaphysical theory and the various transformations they undergo prior to their full expresson in the Metaphysics.This book takes up the central themes of Aristotle's metaphysical theory and the various transformations they undergo prior to their full expresson in the Metaphysics.
Author: E. Feser
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-07-12
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1137367903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAristotle on Method and Metaphysics is a collection of new and cutting-edge essays by prominent Aristotle scholars and Aristotelian philosophers on themes in ontology, causation, modality, essentialism, the metaphysics of life, natural theology, and scientific and philosophical methodology.
Author: Tuomas E. Tahko
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-12-08
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1139502697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAristotelian (or neo-Aristotelian) metaphysics is currently undergoing something of a renaissance. This volume brings together fourteen essays from leading philosophers who are sympathetic to this conception of metaphysics, which takes its cue from the idea that metaphysics is the first philosophy. The primary input from Aristotle is methodological, but many themes familiar from his metaphysics will be discussed, including ontological categories, the role and interpretation of the existential quantifier, essence, substance, natural kinds, powers, potential, and the development of life. The volume mounts a strong challenge to the type of ontological deflationism which has recently gained a strong foothold in analytic metaphysics. It will be a useful resource for scholars and advanced students who are interested in the foundations and development of philosophy.
Author: Theodore Scaltsas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780199244416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents fourteen new essays by leading figures in the fields of ancient philosophy and contemporary metaphysics, discussing Aristotle's theory of the unity of substances. This topic remains at the centre of metaphysical enquiry.The contributors examine the nature of essences, how they differ from other components of substance, and how they are related to these other components. The central questions discussed here are: What does Aristotle mean by 'potentiality' and 'actuality'? How do these concepts explicate matter andform, and how are they related to the actuality of substance? What is the role of matter and form in accounting for the unity, identity, and individuation of substances? These questions are crucial to an understanding of the unity of composite substances and their identity over time.The aim of the volume is both exegetical and philosophical: to address central issues in Aristotle's Metaphysics, and to stimulate further investigation of the problems and controversies that arise from these.
